Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980)
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Reviews Counted: 32 Fresh: 22 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Synopsis:
Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths. Now someone is lurking in the woods, spying on the happy campers, and... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram
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It may be one of the most famous, but it's certainly not an original on which others are based.
09/26/07 01:07 PM
Unsophisticated by today's standards perhaps, but still contains plenty to satisfy the dedicated gore-hound.
09/26/07 01:05 PM
For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.
09/26/07 01:04 PM
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Makes not the slightest attempt to hide the outright theft of every one of its ideas from much better films.
09/14/07 09:24 PM
Friday the 13th emerges not as an outstanding slasher film, but as a succinctly formulaic one.
10/17/06 03:16 AM
A tame, poorly plotted serving of schlock, less horrific for its ketchup-smeared murders than for the bare-faced fashion in which it tries and fails to rip off Carpenter's Halloween in matters of style and construction.
01/26/06 03:16 AM
The whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years.
03/07/05 03:45 AM
Top Critic Hardly concerned with addressing the social and sexual anxieties summoned by Brian De Palma and Mario Bava in films like Carrie and Bay of Blood.
09/25/04 09:22 AM
Suprisingly scary and atmospheric, especially compared to its garish sequels
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